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Promoted by Independent candidate Bruce Gauld, 22 Amory Road, Dulverton,Somerset, TA22 9DY

About Independent candidate Bruce Gauld

My family moved to Somerset in 1965 and to West Somerset in 1972. I currently live in Dulverton.

I am single and have no children. At the present time I am not in employment. In my last employment I worked for 18 years for a small garage in Norton Fitzwarren.

I am paying for my campaign from my own resources.

I am receiving no financial support from any individual or business. I am not now and never have been a member of any Political Party.

I am standing as an Independent so that I can say what I think and the electors of Taunton Deane can know that I am not constrained by any Party membership.

If elected I would not do or take any other employment. I consider being an MP a full time job. If I was elected and the proposed 11% pay rise for MPs was enacted I would not accept it. The present salary of £67,000 per annum is more than adequate.

I would also ensure that my expenses were as low as possible.

My Education

After various primary schools I passed the 11-Plus (that shows how old I am) and then went to Public School.

Yes, another “toff”. Except that the Public School I went to is Christ's Hospital which is a Benevolent Foundation, in other words a charity. I managed to get in because 1: I passed the Entrance Exam; 2: More importantly my parents were not well off, if they had been I could not have been educated there. You had to be poor.

Unfortunately because of financial constraints that is no longer true, some pupils there do pay full fees, however a large percentage do still obtain their education because their parents are poor.

I managed to obtain a number of “O” and “A” Levels and then went to Bristol Polytechnic (UWE as it now is) to study Town Planning. However, after a year I decided it was not for me, I do not have a bureaucratic mind, a necessary prerequisite to be a planner. Also I was wasting the taxpayers' money.

My Work History

As holiday jobs I worked on a farm making cheese, and also in a commercial laundry.

I worked as a chainman (surveyor's assistant) on the construction of the Bond Street Tube Station on the new Jubilee Line in London

I was a clerk/cashier for the National Westminster Bank

A petrol cashier on Taunton Deane Motorway Services.

A laboratory analyst at the Milk Marketing Board in Wellington.

A salesman at a TV/HiFi shop in Station Road in Taunton.

A hall porter at the Castle Hotel in Taunton.

And my final job (so far) I worked for 18 years at a small garage in Norton Fitzwarren.

Yes, I did have short periods of unemployment and I did claim benefits during some of those periods.

As a footnote I did apply for many other jobs but was not successful. Some of the more interesting ones were 1:Army Officer - after attending a Pre Officer Selection Course I was interviewed by the Lieutenant Colonel in charge and was told that they did not really want someone like me in the Army. Was he right – almost certainly! 2:Traffic Warden – I was told I had the wrong attitude, I assumed they meant they thought I would be too lenient! 3: Prison Officer – I passed the written paper and the medical apart from my eyesight. I wear glasses but you had to have a certain standard without them – mine was not good enough.

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